So who is this Mark Roth character anyway? Well, he's
(by his own description) a friendly sort of chap who likes to talk and write.
He and Ruby have been married since August 1, 1980.

He writes autobiographically:

I was born on September 22, 1959 (in McMinnville, Oregon, USA) to James
and Noreen Roth (who had been married some 15 months by then). Late that
year yet, or else early in 1960, whenever it was that I was six weeks
old, my folks and I moved to Mexico. They had been sent there as
missionaries by the Mission Board of Pacific Coast Conference.

My sister Karen was born on December 3, 1964 (in Ciudad Obregón,
Sonora, Mexico). Although my folks and I eventually received immigrant
status, Karen was a full-blown Mexican citizen from the start!
For the 1974-75 school year (my sophomore year), my folks allowed me to
live in Oregon with former missionary colleagues, the Maynard Headings
family. This was so I could attend Elliott Prairie Christian School near
Woodburn. I returned home to Mexico the summer of '75; that fall I
resumed my "career" as a correspondence student. In July of 1976, our
family left the mission field to return to Oregon.

In 1977, Ruby Yoder and I graduated as the only seniors of Elliott
Prairie Christian School near Woodburn, Oregon. I don't recall ever
asking her for a date as such...we just had class reunions...on a very
frequent basis. Our determination not to marry too young, combined with
the 70-mile geographical separation, helped us wait to marry till
August 1, 1980.

We celebrated our first anniversary at the Sheraton Hotel in Guadalajara,
Mexico. You see, we were stranded there...waiting for the next train to
take us on to Mexico City. We were part of a three-family team from
Hopewell Mennonite Church that had
volunteered to serve under Bible Mennonite Fellowship in the
establishment of a new mission in northwest Mexico.

God has generously blessed us with five children. This is our family in late 1999.

During the 2001-2002 school year I served at Elliott Prairie Christian School as principal and grades 8-12 teacher. That was my eleventh year serving at this school on a day-to-day basis; I also served one year as the part-time principal.